Is the Quran Hate
Propaganda?

This article offers a structured list of Quran verses which, taken as a whole, would almost certainly qualify as hate speech were it not for the cloak of 'religion'.

TROP strongly discourages anyone from drawing conclusions about the character of any particular Muslim from this. Islam may be a hateful ideology, but that does not mean that the Muslim you know is is a hateful person.

Introduction:
Why the Violence?
Why the Indifference?

On September 25, 2002, a group of armed Islamists
in Karachi, Pakistan entered the office of a Christian charity, tied seven
workers to chairs and then brutally murdered them. According to Muslim
witnesses, the Muslims "showed no haste. They took a good 15 minutes in
segregating the Christians and making sure that each one of their targets
received the most horrific death."

The killing of non-Muslim humanitarian workers by
devout followers of Islam occurs quite often. While there is rarely any
celebration on the part of other Muslims, neither is there much outrage
expressed by a community renowned for its peevishness.

While rumors of a Quran desecration or a Muhammad
cartoon bring out deadly protests, riots, arson and effigy-burnings, the mass
murder of non-Muslims fails to raise any sort of real passion. In the eleven years following 9/11
nearly 20,000 acts of
deadly Islamic terrorism were perpetrated, yet all of them together do not
provoke the sort of outrage on the part of most Muslims that the mere mention of
Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo inspires.

This critical absence of moral perspective puzzles many Westerners,
particularly those trying to reconcile
this reality with the politically-correct assumption that Islam is
like other religion. The Judeo-Christian tradition preaches universal love
and unselfishness, so it is expected that the more devout Muslims would be the
most peaceful and least dangerous... provided that Islam is based on the same
principles.

But beneath the rosy assurances from Muslim
apologists that Islam is about peace and tolerance lies a much darker reality
that better explains the violence and deeply-rooted indifference. Quite
simply, the Quran teaches supremacy, hatred and hostility. It dehumanizes
and stigmatizes non-believers, making it easier to rationalize (or ignore)
their mistreatment in the name of Islam.

Consider the elements that define hate speech:

Drawing a distinction between one’s own identity
group and those outside it

Moral comparison based on this distinction

Devaluation or
dehumanization of other groups and the personal superiority of one's own

The advocating of different standards of
treatment based on identity group membership

A call to violence against members of other groups

Sadly, and despite the best intentions of many
decent people who are Muslim, the Quran qualifies as hate speech on each count.

The holiest book of Islam (most
of which is about non-Muslims) draws the sharpest of
distinctions between Muslims, the best of people (3:110), and non-believers, the
worst of creatures, (98:6). Praise is lavished on the former
while the latter is condemned with scorching generalization.

Far from teaching universal love, the
Quran
incessantly preaches the inferiority of non-Muslims, even comparing them to vile
animals and gloating over Allah's hatred of them and his dark plans for their
eternal torture. Muslims are told that they are destined to dominate
non-believers, against whom harsh treatment is encouraged.

The Islamic State put these teachings from their holy book into practice during a restaurant siege in Bangladesh during Ramadan 2016. They spared fasting Muslims and fed them their iftar - while torturing and killing those who could not recite from the Quran.

Polished Muslim pundits in the West are
fond of using the word 'bigot' to describe critics of Islam, but they are rarely
challenged on their own view of the Quran. What does the book they claim
to be the literal and eternal word of Allah really say about non-Muslims?

The Quran Distinguishes Muslims from
Non-Muslims
and Establishes a Hierarchy of Relative Worth

The Quran makes it clear that Islam is not about
universal brotherhood, but about the brotherhood of believers:

Not all men are equal under Islam. Slaves
and the handicapped are not equal to healthy free men, for example (16:75-76).
The Quran introduces the “Law of Equality,” which establishes different levels
of human value when considering certain matters, such as
restitution for murder (2:178).

Is the blind equal to the one who sees
Or darkness equal to light? (13:16)

A believing slave is superior to an
unbeliever (2:221 speaking of a prospective wife)

The Quran plainly tells Muslims
that they are a favored race, while those of other religions are “perverted
transgressors”:

Ye are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what
is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in Allah. If only the
People of the Book [Christians and Jews] had faith, it were best for them: among them are some who
have faith, but most of them are perverted transgressors.
(3:110)

As we shall see later, Allah condemns non-Muslims
to Hell based merely on their unbelief, while believers are rewarded with
the finest earthly comforts in the hereafter, including never-ending food, wine
and sex (56:12-40).

Much of the Quran is devoted to distinguishing Muslims from
non-Muslims and impugning the latter. Among other things, non-Muslims
are said to be diseased (2:10),
perverse (2:99),
stupid (2:171)
and deceitful (3:73).

The first sura of the Quran is a short prayer that is repeated by devout Muslims each day and
ends with these words:

Keep us on the right path. The path of those
upon whom Thou hast bestowed favors. Not (the path) of those upon whom Thy wrath
is brought down, nor of those who go astray. (1:6-7)

Muhammad was once asked if this pertained
to Jews and Christians. His response was, "Whom else?" (Bukhari
56:662, Sahih Muslim 34:6448). Since Allah makes such a strong distinction
between Muslims and those outside the faith, it is only natural that Muslims should incorporate
disparate standards of treatment
into their daily lives. The Quran encourages segregation and enimity and tells Muslims to be compassionate with
one another but ruthless to the infidel:

Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are severe against
the disbelievers and merciful among themselves…
(48:29)

The Arabic word used to describe the ideal
treatment of non-Muslims (shin-dal-dal) is the same word used in over 25 places
in the Quran to describe how painful Allah has made Hell for them. The reasoning is found in the verse prior to this (48:28), which simply says that Islam is superior over all other religions.

Islamic law actually forbids formal Muslim
charity (in the form of the zakat payment) from being used to meet the
needs of non-believers.

Allah intends for Muslims to triumph over
unbelievers:

And never will Allah grant to the
unbelievers a way to triumph over believers
[Pickthall – “any way of success”] (4:141)

The only acceptable position of non-Muslims to
Muslims is subjugation under Islamic rule:

Fight those who believe not in Allah
nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah
and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are)
of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing
submission, and feel themselves subdued.
(9:29Jizya is the money that non-Muslims
must pay to their Muslim overlords in a pure Islamic state.)

A common criticism of many Muslims is that they
often behave arrogantly toward others. Now you know why.

The Quran Dehumanizes Non-Muslims
and Says that They are Vile Animals

The Ayatollah Khomeini, who dedicated his entire
life to studying Islam, said that non-Muslims rank somewhere between
"feces" and the "sweat of a camel that has consumed impure food." Small
wonder. The Quran dehumanizes non-Muslims, describing
them as “animals” and beasts:

Those who disbelieve from among the People of the Book and among the
Polytheists, will be in Hell-Fire, to dwell therein (for aye). They are
the worst of creatures.
(98:6)

Surely the vilest of animals in Allah's sight are those who
disbelieve, then they would not believe.
(8:55)

Verse
7:176
compares unbelievers to "panting dogs" with regard to their idiocy and
worthlessness.

Verses
46:29-35 even say that unbelieving men are
worse than the demons who believe in Muhammad.

According to Islamic law, non-Muslims may be
owned as property by Muslims, but - in keeping with Islam's supremacist message -
a fellow Muslim should never be (unless they convert to Islam after they are enslaved).

Christians and Jews are not
considered fully human in Islam. The penalty for killing one of them is limited to
one-third of the compensation due for unintentionally killing a Muslim. Muhammad made it clear that a believer cannot be put to death for killing a non-believer, since they are not equal (see Conclusion). Thus, killing kafir is less serious than engaging in a consenting sexual relationship outside of marriage.

The Quran Says that Allah does NOT Love Unbelievers

Christianity teaches that God loves all people, but
hates sin. The Quran never says this. Instead it explicitly
declares
that Allah does not love those who do not believe in him:

Allah only loves those who obey Muhammad (at
least according to Muhammad, who provided the "narration"):

Say: "Obey Allah and His
Messenger": But if they turn back, Allah loveth not
those who reject Faith.
(3:32)

Instead of a god that loves the sinner, even
while hating the sin, the wrath of Allah is placed squarely on the individual:

Surely Allah does not love any one who is unfaithful, ungrateful.
(22:38)

Verses
11:118-199 say that Allah does
not bestow
mercy on everyone. For this reason, he chooses not to guide some people:

And Allah's is the direction of
the way, and some (roads) go not straight. And had He willed He would have
led you all aright.
(16:9)

In fact, he tells Satan to lead the unbelievers to destruction:

And
lead to destruction those whom you can with your (seductive) voice (17:64)

For those whom Allah does not love, there will be
the most terrible of eternal torments, including eternal roasting:

Those who reject our Signs, We shall soon cast into the Fire: as often as
their skins are roasted through, We shall change them for fresh skins, that
they may taste the penalty: for Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise.
(4:56)

"Allah is the enemy of the unbelievers" (2:98)
and, as we shall see, he hates them so much
that he even leads them into sinning and actively prevents them from believing
in him, thus ensuring their fate.

The Quran Says that Non-Muslims are
Destined for Eternal Torture in Hell

Although nowhere does the Quran say that Allah
loves those who don’t believe Muhammad, there are over 400verses that describe
the torment that he has prepared for people of other religions (or no religion):

And whoever desires a religion
other than Islam, it shall not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he
shall be one of the losers
(3:85)

The relative worth of non-Muslims is that they
are but fuel for
the fire of Hell:

(As for) those who disbelieve,
surely neither their wealth nor their children shall avail them in the least
against Allah, and these it is who are the fuel of the fire
(3:10Shakir: "firewood of hell")

As they are fueling the fire, unbelievers will be
tormented by Allah’s angels on his command:

“O ye who believe! Ward off from
yourselves and your families a Fire whereof the fuel is men and stones, over
which are set angels strong, severe, who resist not Allah in that which He commandeth them, but do that which they are commanded.”
(66:6)

It doesn’t matter how many good deeds an
unbeliever does, because they count for nothing with Allah:

The parable of those who reject
their Lord is that their works are as ashes, on which the wind blows
furiously on a tempestuous day: No power have they over aught that they have
earned
(14:18)

Shall we tell you of those who lose most in respect of their deeds?
Those whose efforts have been wasted in this life, while they thought that
they were acquiring good by their works? They are those who deny the
Signs of their Lord and the fact of their having to meet Him (in the
Hereafter): vain will be their works, nor shall We, on the Day of Judgment,
give them any weight. That is their reward, Hell, because they
rejected Faith, and took My Signs and My Messengers by way of jest.
(18:103-106)

Muhammad told his people that anyone who rejects his
claim to be a prophet will go to Hell:

Surely those who disbelieve in Allah and His messengers and (those who)
desire to make a distinction between Allah and His messengers and say: ‘We
believe in some and disbelieve in others’, and desire to take a course
between (this and) that. These it is that are truly unbelievers, and We have
prepared for the unbelievers a disgraceful chastisement. And those who
believe in Allah and His messengers and do not make a distinction between
any of them-- Allah will grant them their rewards
(4:150-152)

In Christianity, punishment in the hereafter is
directly tied to sin and ‘wickedness.’ There is relatively little said
about Hell, but the emphasis is on personal suffering for selfish or cruel
deeds. In Islam, Hell is a punishment for merely
not believing Muhammad’s personal claims about himself. In contrast to the
Bible, every 12th verse of the Quran speaks of Hell and vividly
describes Allah’s wrath on unbelievers:

But as for those who disbelieve,
garments of fire will be cut out for them; boiling fluid will be poured down
on their heads, Whereby that which is in their bellies, and their skins too,
will be melted; And for them are hooked rods of iron Whenever, in their
anguish, they would go forth from thence they are driven back therein and
(it is said unto them): Taste the doom of burning.
(22:19-22)

No one could torture a person in this way without
hating them intensely. Neither can Allah’s intense loathing for
unbelievers help but affect the Muslim attitude toward those outside the
faith.

The personal superiority of Muslims is confirmed
by the contrasting picture painted in so many places in the Quran in which they
are rewarded with the greatest of earthly comforts in heaven, while the
unbelievers concurrently suffer horrible torment (see Sura
56:12 for just
one example).

Allah Himself Prevents Non-Muslims from Understanding

It would make no sense if Allah gave the people
that he hates an opportunity to avoid his wrath. The Quran says that Allah
deliberately puts obstacles in the way of unbelievers to keep them from accepting
the truth:

If Allah wished, he could provide
guidance to every soul:

If We had so willed, We could
certainly have brought every soul its true guidance
(32:13)

But, instead he sets a veil over the hearts and
coverings over their ears:

Verily We have set veils over their hearts lest they should understand this,
and over their ears, deafness, if thou callest them to guidance, even then
will they never accept guidance.
(18:57)
– See also
17:46 &
45:23

Allah even uses chains and barriers to prevent
unbelievers from believing:

Certainly the word has proved true of most of them, so they do not believe.
Surely We have placed chains on their necks, and these reach up to their
chins, so they have their heads raised aloft. And We have made before them a
barrier and a barrier behind them, then We have covered them over so that
they do not see. And it is alike to them whether you warn them or warn them
not: they do not believe.
(36:7-10)

For the same purpose, Allah also fills the hearts
of unbelievers with doubt:

No soul can believe, except by the
will of Allah, and He will place doubt (or obscurity) on those who will not
understand
(10:100)

Allah Actually Causes Non-Muslims to Sin

Not content with merely preventing unbelievers
from knowing the truth (which is enough to condemn them to Hell) the Quran says
that a hateful Allah
also causes unbelievers to commit the very sin that he will later punish them
for:

And if Allah please He would
certainly make you a single nation, but He causes to err whom He pleases and
guides whom He pleases; and most certainly you will be questioned as to what
you did
(16:93)

Although Satan tempts Muslims, it is Allah himself
who causes unbelievers to err.

…and whomsoever Allah causes to
err, you shall not find a way for him.
(4:143,
see also
4:88 and
74:31)

Allah intentionally sends the people that he
hates astray:

…and Allah sendeth him astray
purposely, and sealeth up his hearing and his heart, and setteth on his
sight a covering? Then who will lead him after Allah (hath condemned him)?
Will ye not then heed?
(45:23)

Allah even sends demons to inspire
unbelievers to commit further bad deeds (that he can later hold against them):

See thou not that We have set the
Evil Ones on against the unbelievers, to incite them with fury?
(19:83)

According to verse
3:54, Allah
plots and schemes against unbelievers using deceit (the literal meaning of
makara, the word used). Elsewhere, the Quran explains that Allah tricks unbelievers into thinking that they
are doing good deeds, when, in fact, they are merely deepening their own eternal
punishment with bad deeds:

As to those who do not believe in
the hereafter, We have surely made their deeds fair-seeming to them, but
they blindly wander on.
(27:4) See also
39:23,
6:39,
35:8,
13:27 &
14:4)

Allah recruits Satan to join Him into fooling
unbelievers into thinking that they are doing good:

On the contrary their hearts
became hardened, and Satan made their (sinful) acts seem alluring to them.
(6:43)

The joke is on non-Muslims, of course, who will
protest on Judgment Day that they did everything they thought was right – but
are sent to Hell anyway:

Then would they offer submission
(with the pretence), "We did no evil (knowingly)." (The angels will reply),
"Nay, but verily Allah knows all that ye did; "So enter the gates of Hell,
to dwell therein.
(16:28-29)

The Quran Says that Non-Muslims Should Not be Taken as Friends

Given that Allah hates non-Muslims to the extent
that he would prevent them from knowing the truth, cause them to err and then
condemn them to eternal torture for their unbelief and misdeeds, it would make
little sense if he intended Muslims to treat unbelievers by the same standards
that they treat each other here on earth.

The Quran says that no true Muslim would ever
love anyone who resists Islam, even if it is a family member:

You will
not find any people who believe in Allah and the Last Day making friendship with those
who oppose Allah and His Messenger (Muhammad), even though they were their fathers,
or their sons, or their brothers...
(58:22)

There are at least nine places in the
Quran where believers are warned not to befriend non-Muslims:

O ye who believe! Take not for
friends unbelievers rather than believers: Do ye wish to offer Allah an open
proof against yourselves?
(4:144)

In fact, anyone who does take a non-Muslim as a
friend could be accused of being an unbeliever as well:

O ye who believe! Take not the
Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends one to another. He
among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them. Lo! Allah guideth
not wrongdoing folk.
(5:51)

Note that Christians, according to the Quran,
are included in the ranks of "unbelievers":

They indeed have disbelieved who
say: Lo! Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary (5:17)

Muhammad said that unbelievers have it out for
Muslims. They may appear harmless or friendly, but, in reality, they harbor
corruption and evil intentions:

O ye who believe! Take not into
your intimacy those outside your ranks: They will not fail to corrupt you.
They only desire your ruin: Rank hatred has already appeared from their
mouths: What their hearts conceal is far worse
(3:118)

O ye who believe! Fight those
of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you,
and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty. (9:123)

The Quran tells Muslims that they will spend
eternity laughing at unbelievers (83:34)
and mocking their suffering as they are tortured in Hell:

And the dwellers of the garden
will call out to the inmates of the fire: Surely we have found what our Lord
promised us to be true; have you too found what your Lord promised to be
true? They will say: Yes. Then a crier will cry out among them that the
curse of Allah is on the unjust.
(7:44) – Muhammad
got an early start on this by personally mocking his dead enemies following the Battle of Badr (Ibn Ishaq 454)

One does not befriend those over whose suffering
they will later rejoice, nor does it make any sense that Muslims would befriend those
whom the Quran labels "enemies of Allah" by virtue of their unbelief.

The Quran Says that Other Religions are Cursed by Allah

Buddhists in Thailand,
Jews in
Israel,
Christians in Indonesia,
Hindus in India... Why is Islam at war with every major world religion, when none of these
religions are at war with each other? Part of the reason is that the
Quran is specific about the inferiority of other faiths relative to Islam (see 61:9) and
the hatred that Allah harbors for their people.

Although religious Muslims typically become upset
when someone “insults” their religion, here is what the Quran says about Jews and Christians:

The Jews call Ezra a son of Allah,
and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their
mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say.
Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth!
(9:30) (See also Bukhari
8:427), one of the last things Muhammad ever said
on his deathbed was "May Allah curse the Jews and Christians.”)

Christians are disbelievers (98:5-6)
and blasphemers (5:17, 5:73) who have
invented a lie about Allah (10:68-69)
by ascribing partners to Allah (ie. the Trinity). Inventing a lie about Allah is the
worst of sins (7:37,
29:68) and for this reason Christians are condemned to
Hell (10:70). Although one (early Medinan) verse seems to say that
righteous Christians will go to heaven, this is abrogated by later verses that
make it very clear that Christians must cease being Christian (ie. reject the
Trinity) or suffer eternal torment
for their beliefs (5:72-73).

Jews are also cursed by Allah (5:13), in one of
his final 'pronouncements'. The Quran goes on to assure Muslims that Jews
are wicked (4:160-162) – so wicked, in fact, that they have
somehow managed to do the
impossible (18:27) and alter the word of Allah (2:75). Jews are
“fond of lies” and “devour the forbidden” (5:42); they are the worst enemies of Muslims (5:82). (See Robert Spencer's list of Quran verses that breed hate for Jewish people).

The Quran assures believers that Jews and
Christians have “diseased hearts”
(5:52). Allah even takes credit for the enmity between them (5:14).
Only Jews and Christians who submit to Islamic subjugation and pay the Jizya are
protected in this world (9:29 & Ibn Ishaq 956).

Hindus are polytheists. Although Muhammad
didn’t know any Hindus (and neither did Allah, apparently) the Quran still
manages to lay the groundwork for the 1000-year ethnic cleansing campaign
against the Hindu people that is estimated to have taken tens of millions of
innocent lives. In Islam, polytheists are worse than all other religion. Those who join idols (11:14) to
Allah also invent a lie about Him (29:17) and will burn in Hell. Even
believing in other divine entities along with Allah is an unforgivable crime (4:48,
40:12).

Atheists believe in no god, which is even worse than
believing in the wrong one (Muhammad and his successors had atheists put to
death - Bukhari
84:57). Merely questioning the existence of Allah is a
testament to one’s impiety (25:21),
even as Muslim narcissism is encouraged in the Quran. Muhammad always answered probing
questions merely by telling the inquiring party that they would go to Hell if
they didn’t believe in him (36:49-64).
The Quran discourages Muslims from intellectual inquiry (5:101-102).

Any Muslim who gives up his religion is a
“perverted transgressor” (3:82). Perverted as well is anyone who
denies Allah (40:63)
or does not believe Muhammad (2:99). Freedom of conscience does not exist in Islam.
Muhammad clearly prescribed the death penalty for apostates (Bukhari
52:260).

While contemporary Muslim apologists often speak of
“dialogue” (meaning a unilateral arrangement in which they tell you about Islam while you listen) the
Quran speaks of
Jihad instead:

Listen not to the unbelievers, but strive (Jihad) against them with the
utmost strenuousness.
(25:52)

What would be the point in hearing anything a
non-Muslim has to say... or even talking with them for that matter? Allah has already sealed their hearts and condemned
them to Hell:

As for the Disbelievers, Whether
thou warn them or thou warn them not it is all one for them; they believe
not. Allah hath sealed their hearing and their hearts, and on their eyes
there is a covering. Theirs will be an awful doom
(2:6)

For those wondering why Allah would even make
infidels if their ultimate destination is Hell, Muhammad said that the purpose
of some (Jews and Christians, at least) was to take the place of Muslims, so
that they would not suffer there (Sahih Muslim
6666).

The Quran Says that People of Other Religions are to be Violently Punished in This World

Allah himself fights against the
unbelievers (9:30), so why should Muslims not fight in
his cause rather than
in the cause of evil (4:76)?
)?
About 19% of the Quran is devoted to the violent conquest and subjugation of
non-Muslims:

Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including
steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies of Allah
and your enemies and others besides, whom ye may not know
(8:60)

Strive hard (Jihad) against the Unbelievers and the Hypocrites, and be firm
against them. Their abode is Hell,- an evil refuge indeed. (66:9, See also
9:73, and 9:123 - "Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you")

Muslims are to expect a reward in this
life as well as the next (4:134), so it makes sense that unbelievers should be
punished in this life as well:

…He whom Allah sendeth astray, for
him there is no guide. For them is a penalty in the life of this world,
but harder, truly, is the penalty of the Hereafter…
(13:33-34)

There are at least two places in the Quran where
the violent death of non-Muslims is referred to as Allah's reward for unbelief (2:191,
9:26), as
in "such is the reward for unbelievers." Verse
3:56, bluntly states that "those who reject faith" will be
"punished with terrible agony in this world" (a vow that Muhammad and his
companions personally took it upon themselves to fulfill).

Verse 4:102 says
Allah has prepared a humiliating torment for the disbelievers. Narrations from Muhammad's life show little distinction between punishment from Allah violence from at the hands of faithful Muslims.

Allah could slay unbelievers himself, but he
makes it a test for Muslims to prove their faith:

"If it had been Allah's Will, He
Himself could certainly have punished them (without you). But (He
lets you fight), in order to test you, by means of others. But those
who are killed in the Way of Allah, He will never let their deeds be
lost" 47:4)

One of the most violent chapters in the Quran
charters Muhammad and his followers with making Islam "superior over
all religions" (9:33 - so important that it is repeated in 48:28 and 61:9).

As noted, verse 8:55 compares unbelievers to animals. In keeping with this theme, the passage goes on to encourage Muslims to gain "mastery" over them and severely punish those who disobey, so as to intimidate the rest:

So if you gain the mastery over them in war, punish them severely in order to
disperse those who are behind them, so that they may learn a lesson
" (8:57).

In the end, All beings on heaven and earth will
be forced to bow down to Allah, either willingly or by force:

And unto Allah falleth prostrate
whosoever is in the heavens and the earth,
willingly or unwillingly
(13:15)

Muslims are told that Allah "loves those who
fight in his way" to make Islam "victorious over all other religions,
even though the disbelievers resist" (61:4-11). Those who
do resist Islam will be humiliated:

Those who resist Allah and His Messenger will be among those most
humiliated.
(58:20 - The context for this verse is the eviction of the Jewish
tribes of Medina and the confiscation of their wealth, land, and children by
Muhammad).

Non-Muslims are to be fought until religion is only
for Allah:

And fight them until there is no more
ftna (unbelief, worshipping others beside Allah), and religion is all for Allah…
(8:39 –
Some translate the word "fitna" as “persecution”, but in this context it means resistance to Islam – defined in the prior verse
as an unwillingness to believe (see verse
38). This passage was
“revealed” following a battle that Muhammad
deliberately provoked. Verse
2:193 essentially says
the same thing and was
also “revealed” at a time when the Muslims were
not under physical attack).

Those with "diseased hearts" - which include
Christians and Jews according to 5:52
- are to be "seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter" (33:60-62)
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along with "hypocrites" (Muslims who are judged not to be true believers by
their associations with unbelievers or their unwillingness to engage in Jihad).

Non-Muslims are to be encroached on, pressured and
punished by
the Muslims:

See that we gradually
reduce the land (in their control) from its outlying borders? (13:41
- See also
21:44)

We shall punish them gradually from
directions they perceive not. (68:44)

And He made you heirs to their land
and their dwellings and their property, and (to) a land which you have not
yet trodden, and Allah has power over all things. (33:27,
See also Bukhari
53:392)

Allah will grant Muslims authority and power over
all other people:

Allah has promised, to those among you who
believe and work righteous deeds, that He will, of a surety, grant them in the
land, inheritance (of power), as He granted it to those before them; that He
will establish in authority their religion... (24:55)

(Muhammad's companions continued to self-fulfill
this prophecy with an aggressive and senseless military expansion that left a
trail of bodies from Spain to India).

Allah provides instructions to Muslims for
dealing with unbelievers who are unwilling to accept Islamic rule:

Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): "I am with you:
give firmness to the Believers: I will instill terror into the hearts of the
Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips
off them." This because they contended against Allah and His Messenger:
If any contend against Allah and His Messenger, Allah is strict in
punishment.
(8:12-13)

Defeating non-Muslims should be easy for true
believers because they are superior in intelligence and understanding:

O Prophet! Exhort the believers
to fight. If there be of you twenty steadfast they shall overcome two
hundred, and if there be of you a hundred (steadfast) they shall overcome a
thousand of those who disbelieve, because they (the disbelievers) are a
folk without intelligence (8:65)

Remember, the Quran says that all men
are not equal according to Islam. This even applies to Muslims, with regard to
their aggressiveness toward unbelievers. Those
who kill or are killed on behalf of Islam are more pleasing to Allah:

Not equal are those of the believers who sit
at home... and those who strive hard and fight in the Cause of Allah with their
wealth and lives" (4:95)

Conclusion

The pattern of violence and aggressive disregard
for human suffering that is persistent in Muslim history and contemporary
attitude toward non-believers reflects the message of the Quran, which is one
of group superiority and arrogance.

In today's world, Muslim dominance is
characterized by the oppression and discrimination of non-Muslims, while Muslim
minorities within larger societies are distinguished by
varying degrees of
petulant demand, discord and armed rebellion. Few Muslims are
uncomfortable with this blatant double standard, in which Islam either plays the
victim or unapologetically victimizes others, depending on its position of power - and
the reason is obvious.

Islam is a supremacist ideology in which the role
of non-believers is subordinate to the position of Muslims. Those who
resist Islamic rule are to be fought until they are either killed or fully humiliated and forced
to acknowledge their inferior status by converting to Islam or by paying
a poll-tax and otherwise accepting the subjugation of their own religion.

There is simply no other religion on earth that draws such sharp distinction between its
own members and others, or devotes
as much of its holiest text toward condemning and dehumanizing those who merely choose not to follow
its dogma.

So much about Islamic terrorism and the general
indifference of the broader Muslim community toward the violence makes sense only
against this dual nature of Islam - as does the strange willingness of
Muhammad's followers to tolerate their own subjugation under Ottoman or Arab
tyrants, such as Saddam Hussein, while being violently opposed to a Jewish
neighbor state.

The apologists are correct in
saying that Islam teaches love and kindness, but they fail to add that this
applies only to the treatment of those within the Muslim community. Loyalty to one's own
identity group is valued above all else and empathy for those outside the faith
is optional at best - and even explicitly discouraged in places.

If this is a "misunderstanding" of Islam by
modern-day "radicals," then it is an error that the founder of Islam made as
well. In Muhammad's time, non-Muslims were put to death merely for
speaking out against the new religion and its self-proclaimed prophet.
Likewise, the Jews of Qurayza were summarily rounded-up and executed on
Muhammad's order, even though they had not even fought in battle. Since
the life of a non-Muslim is cheap, actual physical harm to a Muslim is not
necessary to justify murder according to the example of Muhammad.

The Quran meets every criterion by which we define
hate speech. Not only does the message inspire loathing and disregard for
others, but the text mandates the superiority of Islam, even if the means of
establishment is by violent force.

In his later years, Muhammad directed military
campaigns to subjugate other tribes and religions, "inviting" them to Islam at
the
point of a sword and
forcing them to pay tribute regardless. He set in motion the aggressive
military campaigns that made war against all five major world religions in just
the first few decades following his death.

Islam incorporates the ultimate devaluation of
non-Muslims in the most obvious way by teaching that while a Muslim may be punished with death for
murdering a fellow Muslim (Bukhari
83:17), no Muslim can be put to death for
killing a non-Muslim (Bukhari 83:50,
3:111 & Sunan Ibn Majah 21:2660). The
Quran’s
"Law of Equality," which
assigns human value and rights based on gender, religion and status, is the polar
opposite of equality in the sense intended by Western liberal tradition, which ideally respects no
such distinction.

One can always find apologists willing to dismiss
the harsh rhetoric of the Quran with creative interpretation, tortuous
explanation or outright denial, but their words and deeds attest a
concern for Islam's image that does not extend to Islam's victims - at least not
with the same sense of urgency - thus proving the point.

Of course, there are also exceptional Muslims who do not agree
with Islamic supremacy and sincerely champion secularism and respect for all people.
Some even find verses or fragments of such to support their independent beliefs.
But, for these people, the Quran as a whole will always be a constant
challenge, since it explicitly teaches the distinct and inferior status of
non-Muslims.